I downvoted (and reported) this because this isn’t a question, which is what this community is for.

Can this be explained by the fact that the Internet already has satisfactory answers to more and more questions, so there is less need to actively ask new ones?

That was a lot funnier on reddit where there could be only one community called “superbowl” and it was about superb owls. Here on the fediverse, “superbowl” on other instances can still be communities about the Super Bowl.

I strongly agree with the point made in the linked article that censorship is when a sender wants to send something, the receiver wants to receive it, but a third party (government, social media platform, whoever) keeps them from doing so.

If I want to see “weird little ideas of rightwing weirdos” (or of leftwing weirdos or any others), I should be allowed to. If I don’t, I shouldn’t have to.

Personally I follow slightly more than 100 accounts plus less than 10 hashtags and feel I’m already getting plenty of things into my feed, nowadays I tend to unfollow things that post too many irrelevant things more than I follow new ones.

Lemmy has a karma system? Where?

(It’s a troll post anyway, isn’t it.)

I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.

But really, an “algorithm tweak”? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have “algorithms” that someone could “tweak” on the Internet at all. The first kind of “social media” I ever used was web forums where the entire “algorithm” was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an “algorithm” beyond reverse-chronological sorting.

it’s so easy to host an ActivityPub server oneself, there’s really no excuse for a government agency not to be doing that instead of relying on ex-Twitter

YouTube’s content moderation policies forbid “content praising or justifying violent acts carried out by violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations.”

well so since Luigi Mangione isn’t an organization, sounds like that isn’t covered by these “content moderation policies”? Right?

Obligatory reading:

• https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/
• https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

Some even brew beer from it. (I tried it on an AIDA cruise ship, it doesn’t taste any different from any other beer.)

Can confirm that sorting by new comments makes it appear a lot more active. There’s a reason why old forums’ only sorting method was thread bumping.

anything teenagers actually want to do and enjoy doing is self-harm, haven’t you gotten the memo that adults know in 100% of all cases what’s good for them a lot better than they themselves do

(To any reader unironically agreeing with the above paragraph, I suggest reading this webcomic.)

But the real question is, if it becomes independent, will it finally have data?

You can register on an instance with a backend that combines the microblogging fediverse and the threadiverse (afaik: mbin, piefed, friendica), then you can both microblog and post to communities.

Commenting in part to save this thread for later reading when someone more knowledgeable gives a full answer.

Here is what I (think I) know:

• It is possible to follow Lemmy users on Mastodon, which gives you threads they start in your feed, but not comments they make (I have not really tested this, but this is what I remember reading).
• It is possible to follow Lemmy communities on Mastodon, which makes those communities appear as bots that share everything (posts, comments) posted to them (I have done this accidentally before, not realizing that an account I was following was actually a Lemmy community, then wondering why it was only boosting Lemmy posts until I figured it out).
• It is possible to post to Lemmy communities from Mastodon. I don’t know how exactly, but [email protected] is a community that gets a lot of posts like that, e.g. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/27370850?scrollToComments=true - looks like they simply tagged the community? I am not sure how this works and have never done this.
• If you are seeing a Lemmy thread or comment on Mastodon through one of the above methods, you can reply to it; you can usually tell when someone is doing that when they put @ links to the people above them in the thread into their posts. Here’s a thread full of examples: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/27508474?scrollToComments=true

great so that means the CCP is stepping down and letting the ROC government back into Beijing to govern a reunified China? Excellent news if true.

This has to do with how copyright laws changed over time, for example there used to be a requirement in the US for works to have a copyright notice, or for copyright to be renewed, so some things that didn’t meet those requirements became public domain earlier than they could have if the copyright holder had cared about all the formalities.

doesn’t look like either mastodon or lemmy, although its structure is similar to lemmy; from the sidebar it appears they are running something called “scored” which I don’t know anything about

I mean you could use pretty much any federated blogging software for such purposes.

The clue what ActivityPub is for is in the name: it is for publishing one’s activities (so that others can subscribe to them). Fiction writing isn’t inherently about publishing one’s activities, the main thing you want to do on such platforms is host the content so others find it, not make sure your subscribers are notified about your activities. So it’s not really clear how ActivityPub fits into that use case, although I suppose you could use it to publish the content.